Course Title: Engage respectfully with young people

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2021

Course Code: HWSS6016C

Course Title: Engage respectfully with young people

School: 375T Vocational Design and Social Context

Campus: City Campus

Program: C5331 - Diploma of Youth Work

Course Contact: Dianne Mackey

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4454

Course Contact Email: dianne.mackay@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 60

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

In this course you will develop the skills and knowledge required to communicate effectively with young people (aged 12 to 25 years) in work roles with a specific focus on young people.

This unit is taught and assessed with:

 

CHCYTH002 Work effectively with young people in the youth work context

CHCPRT001 Identify and respond to children and young people at risk 


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CHCYTH001 Engage respectfully with young people

Element:

1. Communicate effectively with young people

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Listen to the young person to gain understanding of their experiences

1.2 Foster communication exchanges that support the development of trust and rapport

1.3 Process information about the young person’s situation from their perspective

1.4 Use a range of appropriate communication strategies to engage with young people

1.5 Consider cultural sensitivities in communication techniques and adapt style and language to accommodate different cultural values and practices

1.6 Maintain young person’s confidentiality in the context that the young person is the primary stakeholder

Element:

2. Reflect understanding of youth cultures and subcultures and young person’s own development

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Consider youth culture and subcultures of the young person in all actions and decisions

2.2 Consider the young person’s individual development in all actions and decisions

2.3 Evaluate issues in relation to young person’s culture and modify approaches appropriately

2.4 Select activities and resources to promote awareness, respect the young person and value diversity

2.5 Establish guidelines that are relevant to the culture and background of the young person

2.6 Assess the impact of own cultural values, cultural lens and ethnocentrism in youth work

Element:

3. Work with the young person as the focus

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Apply youth-centred practices when working with young people

3.2 Respect the rights, needs and responsibilities of the young person

3.3 Explain worker rights and responsibilities to the young person as necessary

3.4 Establish a professional relationship and boundary expectations with the client

3.5 Identify and manage power inequities in the professional relationship

3.6 Apply principles of ethical decision-making in working with young people

Element:

4. Reflect on own practice and values

Performance Criteria:

4.1 Identify opportunities to reflect on own interactions and practices with young people

4.2 Recognise areas where own biases, background and opinions may have impacted on work with the young person

4.3 Seek opportunities to address any concerns or areas for development

Learning Outcomes


On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements.


Details of Learning Activities

In-class (campus-based and online classroom) activities: 

  • teacher directed group activities/projects 
  • peer teaching 
  • group discussion 
  • class activities to review discussions/lectures 
  • role play activities 

Out-of-class activities: 

  • independent project-based work online and other research 
  • independent study 
  • Work placement


Teaching Schedule

Week

Topic

Content

Week 1

Welcome, introductions, unit introduction
  • Welcome and introductions
  • Introduction to the cluster
  • Introduction to WIL
  • Introduction to assessments for the cluster
  • Expectations of students especially in relation to this cluster eg: email communication
  • Review cluster in Canvas

Week 2

 

History of youth work & “the youth work context”

Models of youth work practice
  • History of youth culture and subcultures
  • Harmful and helpful stereotypes about young people
  • Where does the concept of “youth” come from?
  • Why do we need youth workers
  • What role do youth workers play in society?
  • Professionalisation of youth work
  • Youth culture in Australia
  • Current topics of debate about young people in Australia
  • Develop comprehensive understanding of youth sector

Week 3

Mutual respect and autonomy in youth work.

Common misconceptions/myths.

Youth centred practice.
  • Communicating with young people
  • Confidentiality and duty of care working with young people
  • Working with the young person as the focus
  • Rights, responsibilities and needs of young people
  • Professional relationship boundaries
  • Power inequities in professional relationships
  • Social and media myths about young people
  • Myths about the ways youth workers work

Week 4

Working with Young People
  • Workplace Investigation, meeting WIL requirements and commencing work placement

Week 5

Recognising individual needs and circumstances.

Physical, moral and psychosocial development and behaviour of young people
  • Situating young people within their context.
  • Maintaining up to date knowledge and awareness of social, political, economic and legal contexts of young people
  • Apply knowledge and understanding of historical and cultural contexts to individual young people.

Week 6

Engaging with young people – how to build and maintain rapport.

Legal frameworks and duty of care requirements.
  • Duty of care
  • Mandatory reporting
  • Privacy and Confidentiality
  • Identify goals with the young person
  • Create a relationship of trust and respect

Week 6

Working with Young People
  • Workplace Investigation, meeting WIL requirements and commencing work placement

Week 7

Creating opportunities.

Goal setting and planning.

Recognising and responding to strengths and assets
  • Identify goals with the young person
  • Develop and implement action plans
  • Work with young people to identify their needs, rights, strengths, hopes and opportunities
  • Documentation of work.

 

Week 8

Working with diversity.
  • Reflect understanding of youth culture and subculture and individual experiences and development
  • Recognise the role cultural diversity plays in young people’s development
  • Recognise the ways other diversities play roles in young people’s development eg: sexuality, gender, disability, family structure etc. 

 

Week 9

Being informed – research in youth work

Preparing for placement – review assessments
  • Research, analyse and maintain up-to-date knowledge and awareness of the social, political, economic and legal contexts of young people.
  • Reputable and disreputable sources of information about young people.
  • Analysing data on young people.
  • Translating data into meaningful information

Week 10

Working with Young People
  • Workplace Investigation, meeting WIL requirements and commencing work placement

Week 11

 

Organisational context

Working for a youth organisation

Representing your workplace
  • Core values and practice frameworks of youth work as a profession
  • Core values and practice frameworks of different youth work organisations
  • Identifying organisations that align with your personal values and beliefs.

Week 12

Providing services to young people.

Goal and agenda setting.

Targeted assistance and referrals.

Advocacy
  • Identifying immediate vs long term needs
  • Explore issues facing young people
  • Explore nature of support services required/sought
  • Facilitate goal setting
  • Ensure true nature of needs is investigated within comfort of young person
  • Facilitate appropriate and achievable action planning
  • Provide targeted assistance
  • Investigate and negotiate other people/organisation’s involvement
  • Provide appropriate referrals
  • Document actions
  • Play advocacy role as requested/required

Week 13

Recognising and responding to risks experienced by young people

Responding to critical situations

Responding to crises with young people and their families
  • Implementing risk-minimisation strategies
  • Maintaining a safe environment before, during and after critical situations
  • Handling violent behaviour
  • Prevent escalation of violent behaviour
  • Securing the safety of clients, families, staff and bystanders

Week 14

Child protection

Child Safe Standards

Mandatory reporting

Abuse and neglect

Ethical concerns
  • Implementing work practices which support the protection of children and young people
  • Identify and report indications of possible risk of harm
  • Apply ethical and nurturing practices when working with young people
  • Identifying signs of abuse and neglect
  • Report writing for indicators of harm or risk of harm

Week 15

Working with Young People
  • Finalising assessment and WIL requirements

Week 16

Working with Young People
  • Finalising assessment and WIL requirements

Week 17

Working with Young People
  • Finalising assessment and WIL requirements


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources

Please refer to the RMIT student page for extensive information about study support, assessment, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters: rmit.edu.au/students.


Overview of Assessment

Students must complete 40 hours of work placement supported by RMIT to achieve competency in these units.  These units support students learning and assessment in the workplace.

 

Assessment Task 1: Knowledge Questions

Assessment Task 2: Research Assessment

Assessment Task 3: WIL Observation

Assessment Task 4: WIL Observation

Assessment Task 5: WIL Observation

  You should refer to the assessment plan which is available on Canvas for details of each assessment task and for detailed assessment criteria.   Grades that apply to courses that are delivered and assessed in accordance with competency-based assessment are:   CA: Competency Achieved NYC: Not Yet Competent DNS: Did not Submit for Assessment   If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Equitable Learning Unit if you would like to find out more: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-and-facilities/student-support/equitable-learning-services A student charter http://www.rmit.edu.au/about/studentcharter summarises your responsibilities as an RMIT student as well as those of your teachers.   Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions which are available for review online: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/assessment-and-exams 

 


Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1

 

This assessment requires you to answer a series of questions about working with young people in the youth work context.

 

 Assessment Task 2

 

  This assessment requires you to conduct a workplace investigation locating policies and procedures and interviewing an experienced youth worker.

 

 Assessment Task  3

 

 This assessment requires you to be observed working with individual young people in the work place and verbally answering a series of questions.

 

 Assessment Task 4

 

This assessment requires you to be observed working with individual young people in the work place and verbally answering a series of questions.

 

Assessment Task 5

 

This assessment requires you to be observed working with individual young people in the work place and verbally answering a series of questions.


Assessment Matrix

The assessment matrix is available in Canvas.

Other Information

Please refer to the RMIT student page for extensive information about study support, assessment, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters: rmit.edu.au/students.

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